I am an avid Maker, Hacker, and Researcher. I teach my kids to hack, pick locks, look things up, and question authority. I'm also the co-founder of ISECOM (www.isecom.org) and as Managing Director am directly involved in all ISECOM projects. In 2000, I created the OSSTMM (www.osstmm.org) for security testing and analysis. I am still the lead developer of the OSSTMM but have also lead the organization into new research challenges like Smarter Safer Better (www.smartersaferbetter.org), the Bad People Project (www.badpeopleproject.org), Hacker Highschool (www.hackerhighschool.org) and the Home Security Methodology (http://isecom.org/research/hsm.html). My strong interest in the properties of trust and how it affects us and our lives has led to developing trust metrics and through that have brought ISECOM more deeply into Human Security.
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I get occasional contact from head hunters looking to hire security people if I can suggest some from our projects.I also hear from employers who want to verify participation that people put on their resumes. So it really matters to employers too. Of course about half the time, I have no idea who the person is that said they were volunteering for us, which is pretty sad. But obviously these people cared enough about their resume showing involvement in an open source project to lie about it :)
I'm a big fan of RIT as I've seen a few great hackers come through your doors so I'd like to see collaboration with you. Our test bed is our own and now completely virtual and is an ongoing project at La Salle University, Barcelona, where it's housed. Every year it gets a bit more advanced as new students take on new challenges with it to improve it as part of their final projects. See http://proyectos.salleurl.edu/grado-telematica/lostproject/ I'm sure they'd love a collaboration and we can share what we've built and designed with you so we can have more people improving it: especially administration, accounting, portability, and performance. We are also partnering with a university in Lithuania as well so this could be an area of HHS that moves fast and grows large. After all, a versatile test bed is something everyone could use for trying anything before they go live, isn't it :) Contact me directly via e-mail and let's move things forward.